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Denmark has set the ambitious task of replacing its much-used, but aging closed-loop card largely with a pay-as-you-go, nearly hands-free mobile-ticketing app. It has an unlikely goal of reaching a 90% adoption rate for its mobile-ticketing services.
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• RKRP (Denmark)
• SBB (Switzlerland)
• DSB (Denmark
• Fairtiq
• ZVV (Zurich)
• BLS (Bern)
• Copenhagen Metro
• Movia (Denmark)
• Translink (Netherlands)
It’s difficult for an agency retire a long-established closed-loop card, even one with an aging technology and which is expensive to maintain.
But that is precisely what transport officials in Denmark propose to do. And not with open-loop payments or other cards, but with what it hopes will be a wildly popular mobile-ticketing app.
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